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SCHEDULE CHANGE FOR WEEK 13: The Colts-Patriots game has been flexed OUT of the 8:20 p.m. EST time slot on NBC’s Sunday Night Football, and has been moved to 1:00 p.m. EST on CBS. The replacement for this game will be announced by no later than November 22.

As I’ve tried to emphasize before in my blog, the league, over the last few years, is making SUNDAY night the priority and de-emphasizing MONDAY nights. The evidence is very clear, as you guys have pointed out…

Saints/ Lions would be a longshot to move up to the Sunday night slot. Since New England and Indy are AFC teams, CBS has the television rights. Therefore, the only eligible game to move to the night slot would be a CBS game (unless Fox and CBS swap? is that even possible?). It will be Pitts/Cincy or Titans Bills. Im guessing if either the Bills and Titans win in week 11, there game gets moved into the slot otherwise it will be Steelers Bengals.

It in fact is Lions-Saints on NBC, and FOX will broadcast the Broncos-Vikings game; that’s odd but I guess there may me more instances like this, per the link to the story about that further down on this page.

I’m being told by the Ravens that, for the first time this year, it will be Ed “Guns Of Navarone” Hochuli to work BAL-CLE. He did a PIT-BAL game in 2009 and a BAL-PIT contest in 2010. The Ravens won both times, for whatever that’s worth…

also, just a technicality, Mike Carey may not be off. Weir could be with Riveron for travel reasons and have Howey replace Weir since he is the swing FJ right? I’ve not been keeping up to much with ref stuff this season, but that’s a possibilty no?

In addition to Scott Green’s knee issues, Tony Corrente is out with an illness, perhaps for the rest of the year. So I’d expect whoever has the Thursday night game will be pulling double duty this week.

I asked Mike Pereira on his Twitter on Sunday….. how is Tony Corrente doing? He tweeted back that he is hanging in there and doing great. I did notice that Tony Corrente Either shaved his head or all his hair is gone… I feel for him…. this is sad. He seems like a tough guy!

Just some trivia for a boring Tuesday – which crew called the most and which crew called the least roughing the passer penalties from 2008-2010? Answers to follow later today, but I was surprised (at least with the crew that called the most).

Hochuli’s crew leads in several different penalties, but not roughing the passer. Riveron had 21 over the 3-year period (the most) and Coleman had 4 over the 3-year period (the least). I am surprised regarding Riveron simply because I wouldn’t think a relatively new referee would want to be in the spotlight like that.

Oakland @ Green Bay @ game on December 11th has been moved to 4:15. A little surprised by that because this game will coincide with San Francisco @ Arizona game which starts @ 4:05. The NFL normally schedules the Raiders and 49ers at different times just like the Jets and Giants are not scheduled to play at the same time as well. Of course games involving these teams have been moved due to certain circumstances over the past couple of years. Example the SF @ Phil game was moved to 4:15 because of a snowstorm the day before in Philly. Also , a Jewish holiday caused a Jets game to be moved to coincide with a Giants game back in 2009

Because of TV and league scheduling policies, both Bay Area teams are scheduled for at least one prime time game, regardless of their records from the previous season. When one team hosts and interconference opponent, by rule, the other team must be on their bye or scheduled in prime time. You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_television#49ers_and_Raiders

We can’t take special requests. Either we’ll find out who’s working that game and put it up as soon as we do, or we won’t.

For what it’s worth, I think there’s a decent chance of determining that assignment within the next 2-3 days, but no promises. Worst case scenario, it’ll be given by the Jets twitter feed shortly before gametime.

I agree with Happy Fan. Triplette is awful. Just because you are at the NFL level does not mean you are elite. Tom White was never elite but it is hard to fire people. It took the league so long to dump Steve Wilson a couple years back.

The league’s officiating office has always done a fine job of finding the best talent. While some officials aren’t as talented as others, Johnson, you’d have a hard time convincing me that he isn’t one of the best in the world.

It’s really all a matter of what games become televised in what areas. I’m in southwest VA and have seen every official except Riveron on the regional games. It really is all about where you live though, nothing that anyone can determine. Cincy-Pitt is a big match up so perhaps you’ll catch that one, as Cheffers is the referee.

As far as primetime goes, I’m pretty sure every official gets at least one each season. (provided their game is not flexed out due to league rules) Parry was on NFLN Thursday night for Balt-SF and Leavy was on NFLN for Den-NYJ. I believe Coleman is the only referee to yet have a single primetime assignment. Although I’m sure his will come soon.

OK its my weekly guess and the ref this week is Walt Anderson im predicting Monday Night is his game has Visited New England,Tampa Bay cant do them has ref Miami twice and Only other 2 games he could do is Washington/Nyj or Houston/Atlanta based on the fact i dont see him refing a Houston game living so close to there its a GUESS we see him Monday Night Happy Week to all 🙂

Ya now that I think about it he could end up doing the CAR-TB game but would like to see him in a more meaningful game, I love Steratore best official in my mind he does a phenomenal job. Would really like to meet him I’ve only met Pete Morelli back when he was in our hometown of Modesto, CA

Please be advised that the last few are not hyperlinked in yet. I have made some assumptions that I have not previously made. Therefore, these black assignments do not have my usual level of certainty attached to them.

Shouldn’t be a problem. If you get one of those games, maybe you could help me confirm them on gameday. Enjoy Week 13!

Wrong. Up until 2+ weeks ago, it was scheduled for Sunday night. But given Indy’s poor record, the NFL decided to pull the plug and moved the Lions/Saints up to 8:15 as it has more playoff implications.

I agree, Josh. Triplette and his crew had a rough game. The one that really got me was the Jennings TD catch. He was bobbling the ball all the way across the end line, but Triplette reviewed it, and ruled it a good TD. I’m not sure what he was looking at.

In my experience, he’s usually been a pretty solid referee. But not Sunday.

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